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Austerity Saturdays from the Postal Service

It’s Saturday February 9th as I write this. Every postal worker knows by heart their first official day of work as their “anniversary.

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Drones for Democracy?

All week I’ve been glued to coverage regarding our drone policy and the leak of documents rationalizing U.S. government policies surrounding their use..

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Visualizing Labor History

Labor and working-class historians ought to be thinking a lot more about interesting methods of data visualization. The internet is full of fascinating.

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LAWCHA Board Election Results, 2013

The results of the LAWCHA 2012-2013 Board Elections are in. We thank all participants and look forward to working with the new members.

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Teaching Working-Class Literature in Labor History Courses

Labor Notes conducted an informal survey of labor activists, asking them about their favorite class-conscious novels. The range of works was pretty interesting.

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Solidarity? Whatever—Obama’s Forgotten Social Movement

President Obama’s Second Inaugural Address, progressive? Maybe. But only if you are one of the liberals who have forgotten this nation’s working class..

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PATCO strike of 1981: Reflections on Joseph McCartin’s Collision Course

In the wake of the continued disasters for workers rights in the last few years and the recent release of statistics suggesting that.

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Lane Windham, “If not unions, then what?,” Baltimore Sun, January 28, 2013

LAWCHA member and University of Maryland College Park graduate student Lane Windham has published an opinion piece in the Baltimore Sun entitled “If.

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Was Herbert Hill, NAACP’s Labor Secretary, an FBI informer?

Was Herbert Hill–the Labor Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for 25 years known for his fierce.

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“Civil Rights Plus Full Employment Equals Freedom”: Marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington

On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people converged at the Lincoln Memorial in a March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The.

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